What was the best guest-acting role on TOS, and do you have any runner-ups? ( m.media-amazon.com )

I’m going with William Windom:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS7cK-mQ0fQ&t=134s

Staving off reality:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmnpz6TheSs

Doing a villain turn by seizing control:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=83tW0jhEvZE

Matt’s heroic sacrifice:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_mwtoeqneM

Finally, one of the most nail-biting scenes ever:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHmsnQ8WVpw

Personal notes: across all TV and media, I’ve rarely seen a character go from totally sympathetic, to total heel-turn villain, to total martyr like that.

In terms of ST series, maybe Dukat from DS…?

Runner-ups?

  • Mark Lenard as the Romulan commander
  • Robert Walker as “Charlie X”
  • Roger C. Carmel as “Harry Mudd”

Daggit, I know I’m forgetting some actors, here…

Venator ,

Was expecting the title to end with “, and why is it William Windon?” before I read the second half of the sentence 🤣

ininewcrow , (edited )
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I haven’t seen all of them yet (half way through season 2) but right now I’d say

William Campbell

In … The Squire of Gothos … and also appeared as Klingon Captain Koloth

His acting and persona is equal parts lovable and hateable … the kind of guy you could be friends with while also wanting to stay away from as much as possible.

The other guest actor that I felt the same about was

Roger C. Carmel

In … Mudd’s Women … and later in … I, Mudd

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/b7866247-bacf-4495-afd6-4358060fa428.jpeg

Pandantic , (edited )
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William Campbell is my favorite, too. His characters were all so over the top.

TNG spoilers:

Spoiler

Hey, was he one of the Q? Just never revealing himself?! Playing with this great starship captain for amusement.

Grabthar ,

Not going to state the obvious with Ricardo Montalban, but I always enjoyed William Campbell’s Trelaine. And yeah, Windom was solid as Decker. Great episode all around.

danielquinn ,
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Excluding the obvious choice of Jeffrey Combs as… well anyone really, I’m rather fond of Andreas Katsulas, though I may be partial to him for his phenomenal role as G’Kar on Babylon 5.

optissima ,
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Sadly not TOS T.T

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